The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-06-18

Lamb whithersoeyer He goeth; to experience the
| awakening energies of new life working In us. Il
lift up our spiritual vision day by day to behold Him
| who made US and redeemed us. breaking up the
heavens to reveal TO us the tTanscendent gories OF
new dawn and the dawn breaking into morning and
the morning climbing into high. eternal noon; a
| day without shadow to suggest an evening, asky
without horizon 10 suggest sunset, but over us
| and in us the everlasting, radiant zenith This,
this is life eternal know the only true God. and
Jesus Christ whom He has sent
The choir had prepared fine anthems for
the occasion and were accompanied by Prof.
Rinehart on the organ.
In the afternoon a service of the Y. NJ. c..
A. was held in the College pavilion; it was well
attended and very impressive, at the close of
which President Lewis made special mention
of the great good accomplished by this organ
ization among the students.
At night, the sermon before the Young
| Women's and Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations, was preached by Rev. B. +. Benson,
of the Maryland Conference. Taking for his
text, Math. xxi, IS: ''Son, go work to-day in
| Ny vineyard" He proclaimed work to be
the secret of a happy life.
To do little is ever to be little; to work
little is ever to have little; and not to work at
all is to utterly fail of life great end. 'ln the
sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread COM
passes the fatality of human life and destiny.
We must, according to law of our physical,
mental and spiritual nature work our way to
| facility in working; work from darkness to
| light, from ignorance to knowledge, from
weakness to strength. +
But it is work for God to which | desire to
call your serious attention tonight In the
gracious economy of God you must work to
! i've no less in the religious than in the secular
life. This is the law of life, growth, useful
ness, dignity, honor, peace and happiness in
the blessed kingdom of Christ, "Faith with
out works is dead
The main points were as follows:
| |. Work is the legitimate response of divine
| gifts and endowments.
! III. Work is the divine method of develop
ment.
| III. Working is the way to find work to do.
". Work is the law of happy life and des-
! tiny.
| The music on this occasion was also very
fine, the main anthem being the celebrated
I one from Haydn's Creation, "The Heavens
\ are Telling" Prof C. Ii. Spurrier is the
leader of the choir.
ART EXHIBIT.
The exhibition of the embroidery and paint
| ing classes which attracted so much attention
| last year was repeated this year on an en-
larged scale. The room devoted to the pur-
pose of the exhibition was thrown open on
Monday last at p. m, and on various &C.
casions afterwards was crowded with visitors.
The room was marvel of artistic arrange.
ment, and was under the charge of Miss
0wings, the preceptress, who conducted the
work of the embroidery class. Mrs. Hull
Troupe, of Baltimore, gave the instruction in
painting and drawing. On entering the room
each visitor was presented with neatly
printed list of the articles exhibited, adding
much to the interest of the inspection.
/ In r,la in ha bunnQ
excellent crayon portrait of President Lewis,
the only piece of work not done by the stu
dents. 1t is the work of Mrs. Troupe. The
reader will pardon n depression here, to be
told of work of art, not in the art room, and
not the work of the art class, but an object OF
much admiration and praise to many old
students and visitors. 1t is a crayon portrait
of ex- President Ward, and hangs in the Col
lege reception room. 1t was executed at
Cummings in his best style and is mounted
in an exquistely carved hard wood frame.
A tablet beneath bears the following:
Rev. j. T. Ward, d. D.,
Presented to W. NJ. College by his Success
sor, June, 's7.
1t is life-like portrait and it is fitting that
the College should have such a memorial Of
one to whom it owes 50 much.
The medal for the best painting done this
year was awarded to Miss Gertrude f. Beeks,
Of Still Pond, Kent county, Nd, and the
piece winning the prize was a porcelain
PLAGUE, "a inches in diameter, adorned with
blue flags. The exact coloring and graceful
grouping of the flowers make them very
beautiful. Besides this Miss Beeks had q
landscape canvass entitled Summer, 4
companion piece representing autumn, and q
panel of cranes. Miss Beeks is especially to
be complimented on the perspective of her
pictures. Miss Madge Slaughter, st. Louis,
Mo-, together with her sister, Miss Mamie
Slaughter. had a very beautiful exhibition,
Each had a metalized shield, supported on
crossed spears and painted with magnolias.
Miss Madge Lad beautiful study of birds
the fight of swallows, brass PLAGUE with a
scene, the stag at bay, panel of hamingoes,
and panel of eagles, Her painting is very
good and bears CLOSE inspection. Miss Mamie
had some pretty landscapes rustic bridge,
summer, snow scene, brass PLAGUE
! painted with magnolias, and q mirror, deco
rated with some vine branches and small
j birds. Miss Sadie N. Abbott, of Baltimore,
had u beautiful snow scene, and Swiss scene,
which have both been very much admired.
Miss Mary Fisher, of Denton, Nd, has just
commenced the work this year and exhibits
great talent. Her pieces were moonlight
scene on brass PLAGUE. The subject is a
long stately building on the edge of the water
in which it casts its shadow. The light OF
the moon on the water gives opportunity for
fine work. She had also two groups of au-
tumn leaves and porcelain PLAGUE painted
with tulips Miss May Wallis, of Bell Buckle,
Tennessee, had some beautiful work. Her
main piece is a canvass 4Sx60 and is called
Hphe Startled Stag 1his ia really mag
nifeent picture in every respect, and has prob
ably more work on it than any other picture
IL, IL, Id ,E.,1, ,ofI II,
large panel of herons and n companion piece
of storks.
Miss Retta Dodd, of Wye Mills, Nd, and
the medalist last year, had also a fine display.
She had one canvass 1880, ''scene on the
Rhine" which was highly oomplimented and
| praised. One of her pieces, cluster of mag
nolas, was, in the humble opinion Of the re-
porter, the finest thing in the room. She had
a very pretty pair of panels, one of storks aud
another of eagles. Prominently hung on the
walls was also to be found the shovel with
which the young ladies broke the ground for
the addition to the new building. 1t has been
beautifully decorated by the last three ladies
we have named. The blade bore a beautiful
brock geene and the handle was qrnamentea
with vine and inscribed with the names of
/ those participating in the ceremony. It will
I be kept at the college as souvenir.
The embroidery was greatly admired by all
visitors, but especially by the ladies'. All
kinds and varieties were represented. The
work was done in ribbon arrisene, chenille
and silk, and in all the various stitches, out
line, Kensinston coaching, plush, knotted,
&c. The judges on the embroidery were Miss
Bessie Miller, of Elkton, Nd, and Miss Annie
r. Yingling, of Baltimore. They decided
that the most beautiful and best piece of work
was mantle lambrequin by Miss Edith Rich
ards, of St. Michaels, Md. 1t was made of
myrtle green felt, and embroidered in 6loselle,
with peoples, leaves and buds. The shaded
work on the full blown peoples was really ex-
quisite, and the representation of the seed
pods was wonderfully true to nature. She
had, besides this, sofa cushion of bronze
plush, with golden rod and thistles, table
scarf of old gold felt and plush, with ribbon
flowers, and very elegant black satin banner,
with crimson and yellow buds. Miss Retta
L. Dodd, of Wye Mills, Nd, had magnif-
cent piano cover of sage green felt, with car
dinal plush border, embroidered with a rich
wreath of peoples and elaborate corner pieces,
sofa cushion of black satin, with cream and
pink roses, two sets of bottles and pincushions,
one in black and mikado satin, with nastpr-
tium, the other in wine colored plush with
plush roses Miss Clara " Underhill of